[tpop3d-discuss]authentication failures on Mac OS X 10.3

Roger Baig Viñas roger.baig at gmail.com
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:14:12 +0100


Daniel,

The thing is that Mac OS X doesn't use /etc/passwd nither /etc/shadow,
and the problem is that I do not know what it uses instead...
¿NetInfo?


On 12/20/05, Daniel Tiefnig <tpop3d@inode.at> wrote:
> Roger Baig Viñas wrote:
> > compliaton following README.darwin:
> > ./configure --disable-auth-pam --enable-auth-passwd
>
> Are your passwords in /etc/passwd? If not, and if they're in
> /etc/shadow, you'll have to specify --enable-shadow-passwords in
> addition to --enable-auth-passwd.
>
> > As I said everyting seem to indicate that the authentication process
> > fails, but I don't know how to fix the problem. I will try to
> > complie the source code using pam, but I do not expect good
> > results... I'll tell you about it.
>
> IMHO one should prefer auth-pam over auth-passwd anyway whenever it's
> available.
>
>
> HTH,
> daniel
>
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roger